As a member of the Mirvish Village Business Improvement Area, please join us for our 2018 Annual General Meeting. Please find the agenda below.

Agenda

Call to Order, Introductions and Opening Remarks

Declaration of Conflict of Interest

Approval of 2017 Annual General Meeting Minutes [January 11, 2018]

Auditor’s 2017 Report

Appointment of Auditor for 2018

2018 Year in Review

Proposed Program and Budget for 2019

Report of the Nominating Committee (Board Membership)

New Business

Adjournment

The purpose of this meeting is to decide on the BIA's program and budget for 2019 and elect a Board of Management for the 2019-2022 term. This program is paid for by a special levy charged to you as well as other commercial and industrial property owners, and non-residential tenants of such properties. As a member of the BIA, the best way to participate in the decisions your BIA is making on your behalf is to get involved. If you wish to obtain a copy of the complete proposed budget and audited financial statement, please contact the BIA at mirvishbiacoord@gmail.com.

If you are a business or property owner in the BIA and would like to apply for a position on the board of directors, please contact mirvishbiachair@gmail.com prior to January 17, 2019.

Join Westbank Corporation and members of the Mirvish Family at 11 am on Sunday, December 16th for their annual Turkey Giveaway! 1000 turkeys will be given away on a first come, first serve basis, so line up at Markham and Bloor before 11 am!

Looking for ways to market your business and reach more customers? Want to learn what tools are available to help you build your business? Join the City of Toronto for a full-day session focused on helping small and medium-sized businesses get connected to marketing resources to help them grow and succeed.

This is a free event. For more information or to register for this event, please visit the link here.

Open Streets TO is back! Open Streets TO is the largest free recreation program in Canada. We open streets to people and close them to cars, allowing tens of thousands to walk, run and play in the streets!

We encourage you to activate your storefront during our program, as it ca help build awareness and drive sales for your business! Why not take advantage of the 60,000+ people moving in front of your doors?

Join us on Sunday, September 16th from 10 am to 2 pm. There will be an activity hub located at Bathurst and Bloor! Hope to see you there!

The Annex Art Party is an event featuring positive vibes for a creative community; emerging artists of Toronto can connect through a series of beautifully choreographed events that include vending their art, mixing and mingling, and performing live art like dance or music. The event also offers food and beverages to artists and vendors alike.

Find Your Sunshine

The philosophy (read: theme) for TAAP5 is FindYrSunShine because we want to raise awareness to help solve mental health, isolation and homelessness within the creative community. We all had to rise from the darkness at some point in our lives.

Unicorn Awards

Voting for the Unicorn Awards starts at 3 p.m. when the first batch of pictures are uploaded. The awards will be presented to artists starting at 4:00 p.m.

To register as a vendor please use this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScKfYanakGxqpxOtQOB6sVDuwjirf79ppuN9HmHRUlpN2_T5Q/viewform

The first 50 people to RSVP on facebook will receive free food and wine! RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1801850766548149/

Please join author Theo Heras for readings, book signings and light refreshments at A Different Booklist. Theo will be launching her latests picture books, Where's Bunny? and Baby Cakes. All ages are welcome!

To learn more about A Different Booklist, please visit their website below!

Looking for a meaningful gift, a signature piece of jewelry for yourself or to support local businesses? Stop by Trove this Saturday for a chance to see a new collection of beautiful silver jewelry crafted by local artist, Leo Krukowski. Trove will be hosting a special reception from 7-10pm to allow customers to meet with the artist. If you would like to meet Leo, but can't make the reception, he will be in the shop from 12-4pm this Saturday and next Saturday! We hope to see you there!

House of VR and the Centre for Social Innovation proudly present 'VR EMPATHY SERIES'.

Experience the future of storytelling by exploring VR as a tool for empathy.

The VR Empathy Series at House of VR is a monthly showcase of the best VR Empathy content, followed by talks from award-winning creators and field experts. Beginning with a focus on Indigenous issues on reserves and the plight of Syrian refugees, the VR Empathy Series will educate the general public on the true power of VR.

Open Streets TO is coming BACK to our Mirvish Village BIA! This is the second event this summer.

This is the largest, free recreation program in Canada. Open Streets TO will close Bloor St to cars to allow people to walk, run and play through the streets. There will be 40,000 + people at the event dates.

Open Streets TO is coming to our Mirvish Village BIA! This is the largest, free recreation program in Canada. Open Streets TO will close Bloor St to cars to allow people to walk, run and play through the streets. There will be 40,000 + people at the event dates.

Open Streets is happening Sunday August 20th and Sunday, September 17 from 10 am to 2 pm.

Drop by Mirvish Village BIA / Honest Ed's on Thurs. Aug. 10 to rescue perennials from land soon to be dug up for construction. The Harbord Village Gardeners will gather at Lennox and Markham Street. Please bring your digging and carrying equipment. Millweed and other hardy perennials can be saved. A souvenir of the street as it was!

This Spring, Cycle Toronto's Bloor Loves Bikes team has been working hard to bring you the Bike and Buy: Tour de Bloor Passport. This passport marks a new chapter in community relations on Bloor Street, and demonstrates that cyclists do indeed shop locally.Present your passport at participating businesses to win great prizes!

1. After you shop and spend, ask the merchant to stamp or initial your passport

Join us at the Annex Family Festival on Bloor Street West between Spadina Ave. and Bathurst St.

Mirvish Village BIA will have a typewriter set up for locals and festival goers to write their experiences, stories and poems inspired by Mirvish Village. Please drop by to write a few words and to say hello.

"Welcome to Blackhurst Street” is an exhibition that commemorates and celebrates the Black history of Bathurst and Bloor using archival material and original artwork. The exhibition also examines the current state of the community and its future role in shaping our City. Conceptualized as an immersive exploration of black artistry, activism, and entrepreneurship the installation weaves together elements of visual art, photography, archival documents, video, sound, and found objects from the Contrast Archives,Honest Ed’s, the Mirvish Family Collection, and other sources.

This exhibition adds to an ongoing series of community initiatives at Markham House supported by Westbank Projects Corp. since September 2015. Past community partnerships include Wavelength Music, Contact Photography Festival, Park People, Nuit Blanche and Jayu. “Welcome to Blackhurst Street” is made possible by Chinedu Ukabam, A Different Booklist, ERA Architects, Monograph Design, and the Ontario Black History Society.

Bringing the scale of outdoor signage indoors, Jazvac has wrapped and animated the inside of the former David Mirvish Books with a massive new collage of salvaged billboards. The collage is kept in motion by a network of industrial fans and blowers typically used in building restoration. Asking viewers to come indoors in order to reflect upon the outdoors, Browsing considers past and future uses of cultural space in downtown Toronto.

For nearly half a century Honest Ed’s shop windows have defined the street walls of Bloor and Bathurst. Conceived in the same whimsical spirit as the store’s pun-filled signage, Honest Ed’s translated the grandiose displays of large department stores into their own unmistakable brand and turned five and dime shopping into an aesthetic event. Matthew Monteith’ s large-scale photo, which stretches the length of Honest Ed’s Alley, inverts the shop windows to render the street as an urban stage.

Imagine a place in your childhood, remote, safe, warm, light on, a shelter, a doll’s house. Alice is knocking on the door… or is it Hansel and Gretel? Now imagine a cluster of multicoloured simple shaped houses with white plumes of smoke gently flickering over their roof and fading away into the DARK.

Scattered among the boxed-shaped houses, tall and luminous structures of forgotten dolls stand guard, shining ghosts, a reminiscence of Lewis Caroll’s vision of our past, present and future. At the far end of the installation, a disproportionate music box is standing, waiting for people to interact, adding a musical score to the scene. Sounds of whining dolls and lullabies. We stopped and looked down.The memory path was shining with flickering lights. Indoor installation of large light boxes with printed antique dolls scattered along a path of lit houses.

Claude Miceli & Jean-Christian Knaff are visual artists/designers who live and work in Toronto. They were part of Nuit Blanche Toronto 2009 and 2015.

Communication technology is ever evolving. Modifying the ways we interact and negotiate socially in our daily lives, Conversational Partner creates a space for art viewer to become the participant, reconsidering the constructed space and ways we engage within it. The public is encouraged to engage with modules of a tin can phone sculptures, which will create a performance through interactivity, as well as an auditory or sound costuming of the space.

Detroit - Where We Used To Live

At its peak around 1950, Detroit was home to 1.85 million people. Fueled by the auto industry going back to Henry Ford’s extraordinary pay offer of $5 a day in 1914, the middle class rose and prospered. Houses were built almost on top of each other. Stores thrived. Church pews filled on Sundays.

That was the Detroit where photographer Bill Schwab was born into a second-generation auto family. That was Detroit before riots in 1967 and white flight to the suburbs took its toll on the population followed by factory automation, City Hall inaction, the Great Recession and the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.

At night, Bill travels areas in a fast state of flux, finding large swathes of ruralization and deterioration against a backdrop of skies dramatic in color and mood. Street lights, porch lights, window lights, bridge lights, moonlight shine quietly.

Bill Schwab is a fine art photographer with a world-wide collector base. His work is part of many private, corporate and museum collections, including Detroit Institute of Arts, George Eastman House, 20th Century Fox, Royal Caribbean and MGM Grand. Schwab also founded North Light Press in 2005 with a mission to support and publish the work of emerging and established photographers. In addition, Schwab teaches various traditional processes at North Light Photographic Workshops. And, he is founder and host of Photostock, an annual summer solstice gathering of photographers, collectors and enthusiasts featuring workshops, presentations, reviews and demonstrations. Schwab lives between Dearborn and Harbor Springs, Mich.